Honour-based violence (HBV) is a tight knot of conflict, gender and ethnicity. It is also the sensational subject of many bestselling books, in which mostly female victims of HBV tell their life stories. Researchers of feminism and multiculturalism argue that migrant women are often presented as passive victims, and migrant men as violent perpetrators. In our first article for PROCES on this subject, we analysed ten (auto)biographies of female victims of HBV, using theoretical insights on stigmatization. After the publication of this article, we continued to collect these true life stories. In our current article, we analyse two new aspects: how do these stories find their way to the Internet, and are there any HBV stories by male authors? Do stories by male authors shed a different light on honour conflicts and on stereotypes of culture and gender?

Er verschijnen regelmatig egodocumenten over problemen met betrekking tot eercodes in de familiekring. Het populaire beeld is dat allochtone vrouwen passieve slachtoffers zijn van de mannen uit hun omgeving. In deze bijdrage vragen de auteurs zich af of dit stigmatiserende beeld ook uit de tien door hen gelezen egodocumenten naar voren komt. Een ander stigma dat zij behandelen, is dat van de twijfel over de authenticiteit van dit soort teksten. Recente schandalen hebben het prestige van dit genre namelijk geen goed gedaan.